The developmental logic underpinning ‘Cinderella projects,’ in which women of the Global South are targeted for interventions intended to tap and expand their unrecognized economic and entrepreneurial potential. This version of ‘development feminism,’ constructs its female objects as both impoverished victim-subjects and as nascent market-oriented actors. Moreover, development feminist discourse, grounded as it is in seemingly universal ideas of women’s oppression, equality and economic participation, generates paradoxical effects in different social contexts. Drawing on ethnographic examples from Polynesia, the paper illustrates how a homogeneous concept of ‘woman’ makes little sense because local gender categories are complexly intersected by age, socio-economic status as well as by hereditary rank. As a result, development feminisms’ gender interventions transform local individual subjectivities in novel and often unexpected ways, producing new forms of inequality while obscuring others.

“灰姑娘计划”的发展逻辑是其中的基础，在该计划中，全球南方的妇女针对的干预措施旨在发掘并扩大其未被认可的经济和创业潜力。这个版本的“发展女权主义”将其女性对象建构为贫困的受害者主体和新生的市场导向参与者。此外，发展女权主义话语建立在看似普遍的妇女压迫，平等和经济参与思想的基础上，在不同的社会环境中产生了矛盾的影响。借鉴波利尼西亚的人种学实例，该论文说明了“女人”的同质概念几乎没有意义，因为当地的性别类别是由年龄，社会经济地位以及世袭级别复杂地相交的。结果是，